St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-20
The Signal Service Bulletin Show That
the Northwest Had an Excessive.
Roast Last Week.
Corn and Wheat Thriving on This Sort
Of Thing, So Human Kind Must
Bear With It.
A Deficiency in Rain Fall in Most of the
Agricultural Region----Minnesota
Gets Enough, However.
Eleven Counties in the State Report an
Average Of Eighty-Seven Per Cent.
in Spring Wheat.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 19.-Tha
signal office has issued the following.
weather bulletin for the week endingi
June 1s: Temperature-Durin the
week ending June 18 the weather has
been warmer than the average for the
week except at stations on the Atlantic
and Gulf coast, in the West Gulf states
and on the Pacific coast north of San;
Francisco. In the wheat and corn re-
glons OF the North the excess of temper
ature for the week has been from 25ol
to 10 ., an average daily excess above
the normal of from 4o to 100. The
greatest excess of temperature Occurreds
IN the Northwest. and the weather con-
dltlons of the week are reported as es-
peclally favorable for corn and wheat,
except in sections of Illinois. Iowa
and Eastern Missouri, where all crops
except corn have been more or less in
Jured by the dr0uth. In the cotton
regions the temperature has Differed
slightly from the normal, except iIli
Arkansas and Texas, where the daily
average has been from &c to Sc cooler.
than usual. In the tobacco region vest
OF the AlleghenieS the daily excess OF,
temperature ranges from 81 to 4o..
While to the eastward it has differed but.
slightly from the normal for the week.
The temperature for the season. from:
Jan. to June IS. 1887, in the cotton ands
corn regions has been in excess, the.
daily average ranging from : to 90,
while on the South Pacific and North
Atlantic coasts, and in Northern Cali
fOrn1a, the temperature for the season.
mas been slightly below the normal.
RAINFALL
During the week there has been de-
ficiency of rainfall generally through
out the agricultural region east of the
Rocky mountains, except i'll sections Of
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ne
braska and Kansas, where slight ex-t
cesses are reported. The greatest de-
ficiency of rainfall occurred in the
Southern states, the Lower Ohio ands
Central Mississippi valley. The de-
ficlency in the cotton region has prob
ably not as yet affected that crop un-
fayOrably, owing to the numerous and;
Well-distrlbuted showers of the preyiouSs
weeks, but reports generally show that
more rain is needed in that section.
reported in New England. but generallyi
throughout the Northern states
numerous and well-distributed show
erS have occurred except in.
Illinois, where rain is much
needed. The large seasonal deficiencyl
of rainfall in the Southern states has
been increased during the week andi
now ranges from ten to sixteen inches
in the cotton regions. The seasonal de-
ticiency in Iowa, Illinois and Southern
Wisconsin exceeds five inches, while an
excess of five inches is reported from
the North Pacific coast and the upper
Ohio valley.
GENERAL REMARKS.
The week has been generally favor
able for the staple crops. There has
been more than the average amount of
sunshine in the central valleys, and the;
weather has been especially favorable
for harvesting, which has been largely
completed for wheat and hay in the
Southern states. and now extends to the
forty-second parallel in many sections
of the wheat region.